Chris Licht stepped down as CEO of CNN on Wednesday. His exit follows a tumultuous tenure marked by layoffs, poor ratings, and staff discontent. The nail in the coffin was a scathing profile in The Atlantic, which painted him as a leader without a plan.
Sixteen months ago, Chris Licht was on top of the world. The showrunner had been hand-chosen to lead CNN, one of the world's largest and most respected news organizations. Now, he's out. The news came this morning following months of growing discontent at the news outlet. Things intensified over the …
As if things weren't rocky enough for CNN CEO Chris Licht, a new report from The Wall Street Journal revealed top on-air talent voiced concerns about the CEO to the incoming COO David Leavy. The Journal, citing anonymous sources close to the matter, reported that Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, and …
Jeff Zucker compared his firing from CNN to a gunshot wound, according to a New York Times report — in part a self-inflicted one. Speaking to a group of students at Yale University during a seminar on media leadership in April, he said he believed leaders at WarnerMedia, CNN's parent company at the …
